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Art Market Executive Andrew Fabricant Pushed Out at Gagosian Gallery

Laura Paulson, his wife and the head of the gallery’s advisory business, has also left.

Andrew Fabricant in a 2007 photo.

Photographer: Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan

Five years after being made its chief operating officer, Andrew Fabricant has been forced out of Gagosian gallery. Laura Paulson, who has been head of Gagosian’s art advisory business since 2019 and is married to Fabricant, has also left. Neither Fabricant nor Paulson immediately responded to requests for comment.

“Andrew Fabricant and Laura Paulson are no longer with the gallery,” wrote the company’s founder Larry Gagosian in an emailed statement. “At this moment in the gallery’s evolution, we arrived at the point where I decided it was time for us to part ways. We are grateful for their contributions over the past several years and wish them well.”